news

09 MARCH 2016
HILLWORKS’ design for Dudley Yards is featured in studioAPLA, the newsletter of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture at Auburn University.

08 MARCH 2016
David serves as guest critic for Georgia Tech’s Portman Prize Studio, a graduate architecture studio exploring the Living Building Challenge.

25 FEBRUARY 2016
American Lifestyle magazine publishes an interview with David. Check out “At the Corner of Past and Present” in issue 75.

15 DECEMBER 2015
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter joined the National Audubon Society and Outward Bound Philadelphia to publicly launch the Discovery Center on the edge of Fairmount Park’s West Basin.  Visit discoveryphila.org for more information.

30 OCTOBER 2015
David gives a talk titled “the act of digging” at the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning in Albuquerque.

04 JUNE 2015
David’s off to Washington D.C. to serve on the jury for ASLA’s 2015 National Student Awards Program.

01 JUNE 2015
HILLWORKS is happy to announce that Kelly Homan has been promoted to Associate!

16 MAY 2015
David travels to Beijing to give a talk titled “The Phenology Project: A Study in Landscape Fluxuation” at the 2015 Landscape Diversity Symposium, hosted by Beijing Forestry University.

15 APRIL 2015
David gives a talk titled “Beyond Demolition Drawings” and serves as a guest critic in the University of Florida’s graduate landscape program.

12 MARCH 2015
Auburn University’s Provost announces that David is awarded Associate Professor with Tenure within the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture.

10 MARCH 2015
David gives talk titled “the Phenology Party” at the International Society of Arboriculture Southern Chapter’s annual conference in Mobile, Alabama.

15 FEBRUARY 2015
David serves as a Resource Team Member at Design Alabama’s 10th annual Mayors’ Design Summit. This session worked with Mayors from Heflin, Jacksonville, Ashford, Eufaula, and Opelika to tackle select design issues in each of their communities.

 

11 DECEMBER 2014
David serves as guest critic at Washington University Sam Fox School’s graduate landscape program.

21 NOVEMBER 2014
David heads to the 2014 Annual ASLA Conference in Denver to accept awards for the Phenology Project as well as for D.I.R.T. studio’s Urban Outfitters Headquarters.

 29 SEPTEMBER 2014
The Phenology Project is awarded a 2014 National ASLA Award of Honor in Research.

17 JULY 2014
Dwell Magazine features HILLWORKS’ 274 Bragg Avenue project in the Modern Across America Issue (July/August.)

23 JUNE 2014 
HILLWORKS’ 274 Bragg Avenue project is featured on episode #211 of HGTV’s “You Live in What?”

05 JUNE 2014 
David serves as a Resource Team Member in the 59th National Session of the Mayor’s Institute on City Design hosted in Louisville, Kentucky. This session worked with Mayors from Riverside (CA), Provo (UT), Fairbanks (AK), Minneapolis (MN), Pittsburgh (PA), Hampton (VA), Rochester (NY), and Dayton (OH) to grapple with select design issues in each of their cities.

27 APRIL 2014 
David participates in an interdisciplinary panel session moderated by Jay Mittal titled "Adding Real Estate to the Planner’s Toolbox" at the American Planning Association’s 2014 National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

12 DECEMBER 2013 
David serves as guest critic for University of Virginia’s Graduate Landscape Studio Reviews.

12 OCTOBER 2013 
The Congregation Or Hadash Synagogue project is awarded a 2013 Award of Honor by the Georgia Chapter of the AIA.

10 OCTOBER 2013 
David serves as a jury member for the Oklahoma Chapter’s 2013 ASLA Awards.

20 SEPTEMBER 2013 
David joins a cross-disciplinary team of nine faculty from Auburn’s School of Architecture, Planning + Landscape Architecture, Building Science, and College of Agriculture to explore design needs in Haiti.

14 SEPTEMBER 2013 
David leads one of the five design teams invited by the Urban Studio to explore design opportunities within the public realm of the First Avenue South corridor in Birmingham, Alabama.

04 SEPTEMBER 2013 
Birmingham Home and Garden Magazine features the 274 Bragg Avenue project in the September/October issue.

16 AUGUST 2013 
HILLWORKS' 274 Bragg Avenue project is featured in the August issue of ReModeling Magazine.

08 AUGUST 2013 
Discussing experimental projects from HILLWORKS and D.I.R.T. studio, David gives a talk about design methodology titled "Site Histories and Site Forensics" to a crowd of 180 architects at a Workshop at Auburn University.

05 JULY 2013 
The Congregation Or Hadash Synagogue project was one of ten projects from around the world [and the only one from the US] shortlisted by the World Architecture Festival to be eligible for a grand prize in the Religion category. Architects David Yocum and Brian Bell [of BLDGS] will be presenting the project to a jury at the annual World Architecture Festival in Singapore in October.

10 JUNE 2013 
Builder and Custom Home magazines announce that the kitchen within the 274 Bragg Avenue project has received a 2013 Watermark Grand Award. The Watermark Award is a national honor that recognizes "quality, innovation, and excellence in kitchen and bath design."

07 MAY 2013 
The Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health is awarded with a 2013 Mayor's Design Award, which praises projects that contribute design excellence to the urban landscape of Milwaukee. Earlier this year, this project was also recognized by the Business Journal with a 2013 Real Estate Award.